Alice Channer (b. 1977, Oxford, UK) lives and works in the edges of London. She uses sculpture, in its broadest possible definition, to stretch out, slow down and speed up industrial, post-industrial and ‘natural’ production processes. Her work is a twenty first century Process Art. The artist aims to make these processes more visible to herself and to others, and to attune us to the multiple embodiments and disembodiments involved.
Using materials ranging from spider crab shells and stainless steel to limestone, pelletized and recycled plastic and pleated silk, her work traces the disappearance, mutation and possible evolution of multiple bodies in post-industrial environments. Alice Channer has exhibited widely over the last fifteen years, including institutional exhibitions at: Marta Herford, Germany; Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen, Austria; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, New Art Gallery Walsall (2021); Tate Britain, London; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2019); Museum Morsbroich, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier (2018); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (2017); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2016); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Public Art Fund, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2015); Fridericianum, Kassel; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover and Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria (2014); The Hepworth Wakefield, the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2013); and South London Gallery, Tate Britain (2012).
In 2021, Channer will make her first monumental permanent public sculpture commission, Nanowires, for the Engineering Department of the University of the West of England. For this commission the artist is working with bioengineers at the university to identify organic forms whose bodies will influence her sculpture. In 2021 she will also present a group of works as part of Liverpool Biennial 2021: The Stomach and the Port (curated by Manuela Moscoso), and a new outdoor large scale interactive sculpture as part of High Desert Test Sites 2021, USA (curated by Iwona Blazwick). Additionally, she will present an outdoor sculpture Burial as part of Sculpture In The City, London, amongst numerous other solo and group exhibitions. Alice Channer is represented by Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin and Düsseldorf.